PetrSU also includes Publishing house, Scientific library (with collection of more than one million four hundred thousand books), Botanical garden, "Onego" swimming pool. The faculties of PetrSU are located in 13 separate campus buildings.

University provides training for 88% of employees in the Republic of Karelia and 20% of employees in Murmansk region.

FACULTIES AND INSTITUTES

Faculty of Agriculture

Faculty of Mining and Geology

Faculty of Mathematics and IT

Faculty of Physical Engineering

Faculty of Philology

Faculty of Ecology and Biology

Faculty of Economics

Faculty of Law

Institute of History, Political and Social Studies

Institute of Medicine

Institute of Forestry, Engineering and Construction Sciences

Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology

Institute of Foreign Languages

Institute of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism

POSITIONS OF PETRSU IN RANKINGS

- National independent university ranking - 20-40th place among the best universities of Russia
- Nomination "International Cooperation" (2010 - 2015) - 1 -4th place
- GreenMetric World University Ranking 2014/2015 - 2rd place among universities of Russia
- "2015 University Web Ranking" - 28thplace among 387 universities of Russia
- "Interfax" agency - 39th place among 832 universities of Russia
- Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings: BRICS, 2015 - 39-54th place among the best universities of Russia
- 2015 Rating agency "Expert RA" - 52nd place among universities of Russia

Over the last three years Petrozavodsk State University has won 7 federal contests for state support of Russian universities.

Joint Working Group on Education and Research of the Barents Euro-Arctic Region

National Board of Education in Finland

International Association of Finno-Ugric universities

Association of Open Innovations FRUCT

Barents Peace Education Network

For more than 20 years the University has been in heavy demand among international students on various programs including short-term English language courses, courses lasting one semester or more both in the Russian and English languages (for exchange students). Annually more than 300 international students study at PetrSU (mainly from Northern and Eastern Europe, Great Britain, the USA, China). And annually more than 250 students and staff of PetrSU visit foreign universities for exchange, research, internship in the framework Erasmus Mundus, FIRST, CIMO, TEMPUS etc.